12-letter words containing o, f, e, n, s, i
- find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
- first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- fishing pole — a long, slender rod of wood or other material with a line and hook fastened to one end for use in catching fish.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
- food science — the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- foreseeingly — by way of foreseeing
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- frozen stiff — feeling very cold
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- give offense — to offend; anger, insult, etc.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place